Kashita Miyagi

"Everyone's shining! I'm AKB0048's Gun-Girl, Kashita Miyagi also known as Miyaya."

- Miyagi's Stage Introduction Catchphrase

Miyagi Kashita is a member of AKB0048's 151st Generation and the ace of AKB0048's Team A. She also has got a solo singing career and is an actress.

Miyagi is also known as "Miyaya" (みやや), "Miyachan" (みやちゃん), "Miya" (みや) and "Gun-Girl". She is known for her cute, innocent and pure stage personality despite having a rather cold personality off-stage that is unknown to the public. Because of her skills in the usage of rifles, she's called Gun-Girl, an insider joke between the members. She's also known for her close relationship with her fellow member and best friend Miyabi Honoka.

Appearance
Miyagi has got long blackish hair. Her eyes are blue; the upper part of her eyes are darker than the lower part. She has got a fair skin, and similar to other members of AKB0048, she has got heart-shaped light reflections in her eyes and on her hair. As well, in her eyes are three other points for an unknown reason.

Originally, Miyagi wore regular twintails that were usually tied up with ribbons. Her hair was rather straight and the twintails ended at shoulder lenght. Miyagi is very careful when it comes to her hair and only a few persons are allowed to touch it.

From June SC0125 on, she wears her twintails from the high back of her head, and her hair is now wavy. Her hair has grown and her twintails now end on breast height. She changed her hairstyle for Rose no Hibi but eventually started to like it and decided to continue wearing her hair in the new style.

Before she decided to try out the auditions, she used to wear her hair open. One of the major reasons, why she started wearing twintails is her wish to succeed Watanabe Mayu. However, she has grown to the style and enjoys wearing twintails a lot. She almost always uses ribbons to tie her hair up. Miyagi sometimes uses Honoka's ribbons as well, just liek Honoka uses her ribbons.

Miyagi's style is very cute, girly and yume-kawaii inspired. She likes to wear pastel clothes and doesn't wear a lot of make-up. Miyagi likes to wear many bracelets with ribbon, jewelry and heart motive. Since Miyagi likes shopping a lot, she has got many clothes. She spends a lot of time with preparing herself every morning and takes much care on her hair which is almost holy to her. It's implied that she's carrying a little rifle with her where ever she goes, usually in her shoes as she likes to wear boots in fall, spring and winter. Sometimes, she wears glasses to disguise herself when she is going in public for shopping. Her visual acuity rating is 2.0, and she doesn't need them.

Personality
Miyagi has got an "on-stage self" and an "off-stage self" and switches between both at will. She is also very good in holding up her on-stage self, but thanks to other members' comments and her nickname "Gun-Girl", several hints onto her real self have reached the public. Fortunatly, the majority of the public audience seems to believe that the nickname is an insider joke. On the stage, she usually acts as if she doesn't understand the nickname or the rumors. Miyagi doesn't withhold her power on the battle field, even if there is an audience.

Miyagi's on-stage self is described as innocent and pure girl who couldn't harm anything. She's commonly seen togethr with Honoka and cares a lot for her best friend. However, she seems to be a bit fragile and not self-confident. She usually keeps a smile on her face and works together with the other members. She usually doesn't speak as much as Honoka does, and almost never leaves her side.

Miyagi's real self is more or less the opposite. In private, Miyagi rarely displays emotions aside of her friendship to Honoka, but definitly has got feelings. Those don't break out often, but sometimes, they show. For example, on Rena's graduation concert, Miyagi wasn't able to stop herself from crying. She usually is somewhere where Honoka is but unlike on-stage, Miyagi doesn't care a lot about offending or hurting other members.

She is confident into her abilities and serious about them. Because she is used to get what she wants, Miyagi doesn't fear doing everything for it and would likely not stop to use others to clear her ambitions. She doesn't seem interessted in others, aside of Honoka but as long as they don't annoy her, she doesn't offend them in any wise. Since she grew up in a rich family, Miyagi is quite spoiled, but knows that things aren't forever. She is, for example, very afraid about her spot as front member since there are members that rank higher than she does.

Miyagi is a very sore looser and dislikes losing a lot. She usually ignores her own weaknesses and tries to find other reasons for her loss. She doesn't mind standing in the center of attention. An example is the election, despite graining votes, she dropped and thus considered the sousenkyo in SC0124 as a loss.

Generally, she is a over-confident and considers herself to be more or less invincible, not counting reading and writing. Miyagi is a sore loser and usually tries to find an excurse why losing isn't her fault. As well, she is very stubborn and diffecult to change fom her beliefs, if it isn't done by someone very close to her, for example Honoka. She enjoys being respected, and also enjoys being feared a bit.

While never saying it, Miyagi is afraid of several things. For example, she is terribly afraid of bugs and spiders. She is also afraid of thunderstorms and she feels uncomfortable in small rooms. She is also afraid of ghosts and other supernatural beings as she believes in them. Halloween is generally horror to her. Miyagi will never admit those fears, not even to herself. Since Miyagi is also unable to swim, and never really has tried to learn it, she is terribly afraid if she cannot see the ground. She is afraid of open fire, but thanks to her paintball hobby, gunfire and similar explosions don't frighten her anymore.

A side effect of her lack of education is the fact that Miyagi believes into several unrealistic things such as fortune telling, unicorns and that alpacas are mythical creatures until having met them in reality. For the single reason of Honoka's never-ending cupcake-hunger, Miyagi has learned how to bake cupcakes, and she is quite good in it by now. It's unknown how she learned this, however.

Skills
While being average in terms of dancing and singing, Miyagi aces in rifle combat. She likely is most proficientst in rifle usage in 0048 having learned this beforehand with the help of professional trainers. Since paintball is one of Miyagi's hobbies, she trains those skills more than other members do. She is a good sniper, but also skillfull in other situations. She has no problems with hitting moving targets or targets that are far away.

Aside of rifle combat, Miyagi is also proficient in hand-to-hand combat. She prefers rifles, but tries not to forget hand-to-hand combat. She knows how to use micsabers but compared to hand-to-hand and rifle combat, she lacks in this area. She dislikey using micsabers simply because she isn't as skilled with micsaberas as with rifles.

Miyagi's LAS skills are bad. Since she cannot read, flying a LAS is very diffecult to her and usually, she stays out of space battles. She is, however, still proficient in using the guns of LAS and works best if someone else flies while she is shooting.

Despite her combat skills, she either performs or protects guerilla concerts, as sole hand-to-hand combat is too dangerous to be used and she can't care around a rifle while performing. This is something that annoys her a lot, but she hasn't come up with a solution yet.

Being physically fit, Miyagi has a good stamina and trained strenght and speed. As well, she is quite flexible. Having learned this from a friend, Miyagi knows quite a few tricks to steal things such as phones and similar which she likes to do for fun in 0048's dorms, or if asked by members to get something back. For example, Sasshi often asks her to retrieve her phones from Hikari. Miyagi is also able to continue working on full power even if exausted. However, this also caused her to lose more energy.

Since Miyagi dropped school early, her knowledge and educational levels are very low. She isn't able to read the majority of kanji and has got problems with hiragana and katakana. Thus, she cannot write as well and needs help with both. She has got dyslexia but it wasn't diagnosed until lately, and thus the treatment hasn't helped much.

Fortunatly, Miyagi is skilled in learning things by heart when hearing them. She often records lyrics or drama lines on her phone and simply listens to them to learn them. Depending on the text, it might just take a few tries until she has started to know them. Miyagi is a great actor as well. She loves switching into other personas, not only her stage persona, and is quite skilled in doing so. It is diffecult to make her break her acting.

Miyagi is a patient person and thus has no problems with waiting for a long while, even if it's without doing anything. She is also quite good in noticing small things and in watching things. Her visual acuity rating is 2.0 which helps as well.

Likely due to Honoka's love for cupcakes, Miyagi has learned how to bake cupcakes. While her early tries weren't good at all, she has gotten better. It's unknown how she was able to learn how to bake cupcakes; as it seems like she didn't learn it with the help of anyone. She also has started drawing in her free time, but is only a beginner.

As a result of Orchestra, Miyagi has learned how to use a synthesizer. She knows how to play a few AKB songs on it, but otherwise, her skills are basic.

Before 00
Miyagi was born and grew up on Tekistar and is part of a huge, rich family. Growing up with everything, she wanted to have, Miyagi is rather spoiled. Several reasons made Miyagi start skipping school a lot, eventually, she only said that she believed that she knew everything she'd ever need. With twelve, her attention waved towards the suburb's 'yankee business' where she eventually became one of the strongest personalities in the suburbs, thanks to self-defense training and engaging professionals to train her. She learned several thinks, but none of them included skills as reading and writing and found interesst in paintball. It is a tradition in the family that the males would overtake official roles, being present in politics and finances while the females were staying at home. However, 'at home' usually didn't only refer house wifes, and thus, no one truly cared about Miyagi's new hobby.

While 0048 never came to her home planet as long as Miyagi can remember, listening to music was something natural to her, and she enjoyed it. However, it wasn't of special meaning to her and she never imagined herself as idol, espacilly not in the position, she is right now.

Time in 00
When Miyagi was fourteen and a half year, her mother had a serious accident which caused her mother, Miyagi and her brother little problems. While the family's business was continued by her aunt, Miyagi realized that she had been living in a dreamworld. After hearing a argument between her mother and the current family head, her grandparents, she decided that she wanted to do something other then the life, she had always imagined to be hers. In November SC0122, she sent an audition tape to 0048 which seemed to be something, she'd like to try out. She knew that she had combat skills and after realizing that not all planets were as "perfect" as Tekistar, she decided that she wanted to change something. She wasn't exactly sure about the idol part of 0048 before joining but after joining, she realized that being an idol of 0048 was exactly the acitivity, she enjoyed most, and now wants to do in her life.

After joining 00, Miyagi found something, she started to love more than anything else in the world; Honoka and performing. She learned a lot, but somekind also stayed the same. To some extent, Honoka's influence has made her mentally younger than she was before. At the same time, she has grown a lot and has experienced a lot of different things thanks to her activities in 00 and solo.

Team History
151st Generation → 151st Generation & Team 00 → 151st Generation & Team A
 * Joining the 151st Generation of Trainees (SC0123.05.15)
 * Promoted to Team 00 (Formation) (SC0123.06.17)
 * Transfer to Team A (Formation) (Halloween Shuffle) (SC0123.10.31)

Etymology
"Kashita" is written as.

can be translated as river bank and as field.

"Miyagi" is written as.

can be translated as shrine and can be translated as fortress or castle.

Miyagi was given her name with the hope that while her soul would stay as pure as a shrine, she would grow up in a strong woman with power as strong as a fortress. Ironically, the name also references her on-/off-stage personality.

Miyagi's nicknames "Miya" (みや), "Miyachan" (みやちゃん) and "Miyaya" (みやや) are variations of her given name. She originally decided to call herself Miyaya as a reference to Mayuyu, and eventually, Miya and Miyachan spawned of this nickname. "Gun-Girl" is a title that Honoka has given her and she is known for.

Quotes

 * "Everyone is Shining~! I am AKB's Gun-Girl Kashita Miyagi known as Miyaya~ It's a pleasure~"  - Miyagi's Introduction Catchphrase

Screenshots
For other images of Miyagi, please refer her category.

Trivia

 * Favourite Song in the New Era: To Say
 * Audition Song: Kibou ni Tsuite
 * Favorite Food: Watermelons, Strawberry Parfait
 * Favorite Animal: Unicorns, Alpacas
 * Favorite Colour: Pink, Rainbow Colours
 * Hobbies: Paintball, shopping, collecting cute things, spending time with Honoka, watching nature
 * Penlight Colour: Hot Pink
 * Charm Point: Hair
 * Blood Type: A
 * Her voice actress was choosen because she voiced Serena in Pokémon XY.
 * Miyagi has given her kirara the name Shellu (シェルー). The reason is unknown. It's a dark blue sphere with two arm-like spheres and two ear-like spheres attached. It has got dark blue eyes.
 * Since she doesn't own a social media account, she usually uses Honoka's account @Rainbow-Miya.
 * Miyagi's idol is MK2, while her Oshimen is Honoka.
 * Due to her skills, Miyagi is in charge of the rifle training in the second round of auditions.
 * Inofficially, she and Honoka are the double aces of their generation.
 * Miyagi's nickname "Miyaya" was inspired by Mayuyu's nickname.
 * Miyagi doesn't have a favorite music genre and enjoys to listen a lot of songs.
 * She sightly is allergic to dust.
 * Miyagi is the only member whose spot doesn't change at all from 001 to A1.
 * In SC0123, Miyagi's Senbatsu Sousenkyo Poster was a picture of her wearing the senbatsu uniform's understudy version. She decided on this uniform, because the uniform is also called "Successor Uniform". She wanted to express the though that she doesn't need to be a successor to win.
 * In SC0124, Miyagi's Senbatsu Sousenkyo Poster is exact the same as Miyabi Honoka's poster. They're the first members to share a poster. The caption can be translated as "The Two's Rainbow". It's a mix between Futari no Ashiato's and Nijuu no Niji's names.
 * In SC0125, Miyagi's Senbatsu Sousenkyo Poster uses an outfit appearing in Ashita wa Kitto Kuru's MV, an angel costume. The caption is the song's name.